Can you choose what apps and contacts appear when you are trying to share an image or file?

behrprofl · Dec 16, 2017

Example: In gallery I choose a picture of my dog I want to send to a contact....

After i chose the image and then "share" a menu pops in from the bottom of the screen with sharing options, via bluetooth, android beam, email etc.

The top usually has contacts and form my understanding it was most recent contacts you messaged? But sometimes it wont have the most recent person or sometimes it will have the sharing via the stock message app (which I have disabled and I use Verizon messages since day 1).

Can we choose what appears here??? Or is it not possible?

Shotgun84 · Dec 16, 2017

I also use a third party message app and that shows on the share options. When I press it, it suggests some of my regulars but I can press the guy with a + symbol and it'll let me choose a contact. The guessed contacts will still be there but they won't be included unless you press them. Is it not the same for you?

It's on the first page for me but maybe it's on the second for your. Have you tried swiping left to pull the next options from the left?

behrprofl · Dec 16, 2017

Not sure..... heres what I get...

Shotgun84 · Dec 16, 2017

The dots at the bottom look like you have another 3 pages. If you swipe from the right side of your screen to the left does your message app show up?

behrprofl · Dec 16, 2017

My message app is on the first page.. The Verizon one
Red and white icon first one on the 2nd row next to Snap chat

I'm trying to get specific contacts pinned to the top menu

marctronixx · Dec 17, 2017

they dont get "pinned". the OS determines what goes there based on your conversations with those contacts, so the answer is no you dont have full control to "pin" anything there.

what is happening is, the top contacts there are the ones you recently interacted with. that app you interacted with them with will be the first app (usually) at the BOTTOM of the list of apps there,

since you use verizon messages app with those contacts up top, it makes sense to have that app as the first app since that was the most frequent.

im also assuming the apps that are listed there are the apps you use most of the time, yes? so it makes sense to see those there instead of much less used apps.

for example, i dont see the "phone" call app listed in that list, so that makes me think you use apps to converse with your contacts, rather than calling them.

behrprofl · Dec 17, 2017

marctronixx said:
they dont get "pinned". the OS determines what goes there based on your conversations with those contacts, so the answer is no you dont have full control to "pin" anything there.

That's a big poop decision

marctronixx · Dec 17, 2017

I hear you, but that's how it is. i think i recall this behavior on other devices, so makes me think its an OS decision rather than a specific phone/device...

Can you choose what apps and contacts appear when you are trying to share an image or file?

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